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The Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity is engaging communities of faith in the movement to close prisons and detention centers, and create thriving communities based in racial equity and community care. Rev. Lee will share a frontline report from the Pilgrimage to Heal our Communities which traveled to all the immigration detention centers in California … Continue reading Abolishing Cages: Journey to Community
Yeshe Tsogyal (c. 757 or 777 – 817 CE) attained enlightenment in her lifetime and is considered the Mother of Tibetan Buddhism. When she herself asked about “her inferior female body” (a common theme in the biographies of female spiritual practitioners), her teacher advised Yeshe Tsogyal that far from being a hindrance to enlightenment, as … Continue reading Buddhism Beyond the Binary
Most of us pride ourselves in not being racist but it could be argued that racism exists on a continuum on which we all reside. Join us on 9/17 when UUCPA member Tom Parker discusses the grey areas, the more difficult, challenging, and sometimes subtle aspects of racism and white privilege we deal with both … Continue reading Driving While White
In the series Why Do We Do That in the Sunday Service?, we come to the sermon. We inherited our service format from the Protestant Christian tradition from which Unitarian Universalism is descended. It has been affectionately or pejoratively nicknamed “the sermon sandwich.” The sermon, in this image, is the raison d’etre of the service: … Continue reading Swimming Against the Current
Please note that both services will be held indoors (with patio seating always an option) due to the chilly temperatures expected. In this sermon, part of the series, “Why Do We Do That In the Sunday Service?,” we look at the circuitous history, and multiple meanings, of our unison benediction: Go out into the world … Continue reading Good Words for Going Forth
A lovely expression some use for the sad moment of a loved one’s death is “They have joined the ancestors.” We have so many ancestors: everyone who shaped our lives, who helped make us what we are–especially in ways that we treasure. They may be relatives, friends, strangers, even non-human beings. And we ourselves are … Continue reading With the Ancestors
⏰ Turn your clocks back, or you’ll be very early to services! 9:30 am service: outdoors and in-person only (weather permitting).11 am service: online only. I’ve never preached on “followership” because it just seems so self-serving. I’m a leader, and every leader wants people to be good followers, right? But today I’d like to share … Continue reading The Power of Followership
Disability rights activists in this country are both precursors to and inheritors of the movement for African-American civil rights. In casting off the restraints of pity and protectiveness, people with disabilities have led themselves and others to greater liberation. We’ll hear a small piece of this history today. Follow along in the order of service: … Continue reading Power over Pity
Such a wonderful invention: the opportunity to undo something we have done and suddenly regret. What’s past may be prologue to the future, but we still have the power to rewrite. What would you like to do a little differently in your own life? What shall we do differently as a country and community? The … Continue reading Ctrl-Z
The audio player above plays the audio podcast of the sermon only. The YouTube player below plays the video of the entire service with copyrighted and private information redacted. Follow along in the order of service: bit.ly/uucpa_oos_20201227 We know that we Unitarian Universalists are a church of many beliefs. But we are also a church … Continue reading A Church of Many Sensibilities